Tearing sensation after Vats Surgery
Hey Guys. I'm a 46 year old male who had vats bullectomy and talc pleurodesis surgery almost 3 weeks ago. I've been doing well apart from the obvious early pains, but was walking 7-8,000 steps a day after about 10 days and pushed that up to 10,000 and beyond from the 2 week mark, and have been doing all the post surgery stretches and exercises I was asked to do. I've generally felt fine, but while I was lying in bed last night, I moved my arm back abruptly and felt an intense pain but more concerningly a "tearing" sensation in my chest. Since then for the rest of the night and all of today I'm feeling a lot more sore and my chest feels a lot tighter than it previously has.
Do you think I have torn the talc or perhaps the scar tissue? And if so (it that's even possible), did that happen to anyone else, and if so (again), what did you do about it?
Cheers!